Salad Days

To me, and possibly also my family, when I hear the expression "Salad Days" it takes me back to when I was a teenager and our involvement in a production of the musical of that name. I always wanted to sing one of the songs in that musical "Summer and Sunshine and falling in love". It wasn't because I was falling in love or anything like that - I just loved that song. But that was sung by the lead, so I never did get to sing it.

The title of the musical refers to the expression "salad days" meaning a "youthful time, accompanied by the inexperiences, enthusiasm, idealism, innocence or indiscretion that one associates with a young person", or the "heyday when someone is at their peak".

Well, maybe my youth passed a little while ago, but at the moment it seems that every day is a salad day here at home. This is because all our lettuces are growing sooooo well in our new raised beds, that we have salads - or at least green leafy veg, at every lunch and dinner, and often breakfast too, if we put them in a smoothie!

We have one crispy green lettuce, one red lettuce, cilantro, parsley, a European lettuce - that looks like grass (not our favorite) and some arugula. It is all so vibrant and tasty when picked 5 minutes before you eat it. Yum, yum. It makes me feel like I'm in my salad days!

I think maybe when I go out to pick my salad for dinner tonight, I'll have to sing "summer and sunshine" to the plants!! What do you think?

Are you enjoying your salad days and getting lots of green leafy vegetables in your diet? Green vegetables are low in calories and get the majority of their calories as protein. When more of your protein needs are met from green vegetables, you get the benefit of ingesting a huge amount of critical, life-extending micronutrients. Scientific research has shown a strong positive association between the consumption of green vegetables and a reduction of ALL the leading causes of death in humans. So make this summer your "salad days" and feel like you are in your heyday.